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Billed as the world’s leading event for photography, Paris Photo 2009 began yesterday, and runs through the weekend.

The New York Photo Festival's annual for 2009 is now available. The book features  the highlights from the festival last May, including the photo contest's runners up in each category.

You can preview and purchase the book on Blurb.

Photographers are using their flash bulbs to help those in need this holiday season.

Help-Portrait is a group that seeks to create a community between photographers and people who are struggling or down on their luck.

In their promotional video, one man exclaims that it was the first portrait ever taken of him outside of a mug shot. Another woman is in tears after seeing herself with her hair and makeup neatly arranged.

Earlier this week we touched upon the SD cards being implemented by movie rental giant Blockbuster. This shift is just one of many changes companies are making to keep up with the digital era, and Best Buy conglomerate is determined to stay current as well. The chain recently announced its newest plan to sell its entertainment bit by bit, literally.

Ever since MTV decided to recast itself as an overarching youth culture brand at the end of the 20th century, a lot of music video fans have been asking themselves:

What's going to happen to music videos?

Looks like there's no turning back now. This is war; at least for Blockbuster, Netflix and the surprisingly popular RedBox, each relentless participants in the fight to monopolize the movie-renting, -streaming, -downloading industry. If you haven't already heard, Blockbuster should be changing its name to Brokebuster by now. According to slashfilm.com, the company plans on closing 1,000 more of its stores in the next twelve months, leaving thousands of Blockbuster employees without jobs.

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Lay Flat is a newish nonprofit (founded by photographer Shane Lavalette) seeking to help artists create awesome photo books.  Founded in January of 2009, they are still getting their feet wet.

They work with both up-and-coming and more established artists to "create books that express a vision and exist as artful objects in themselves."  Lay Flat also publishes a magazine.

Their books are Lay Flat 01: Remain in Light (out now) and Lay Flat 02: META (coming soon).

Young places like this are a great way to gain a lot of experience quickly. If you are in the Boston area and in school, check out their internship.

No longer will you have to travel to Park City, Utah just to be a part of Sundance. A new event has been created by the Sundance Institute called Sundance Film Festival U.S.A. that will enable Sundance filmmakers to come to you - well, at least eight of them, all of whom will travel to eight separate cities on January 28 during the festival's awards weekend.